The Night Offices: Prayers for the Hours from Sunset to SunrisePhyllis Tickle's inspirational trilogy The Divine HoursTM was the first major literary and liturgical reworking of the sixth-century Benedictine Rule of fixed-hour prayer--an age-old discipline of saying prayers at certain times of the day. This highly regarded trilogy has become one of America's best-loved and most frequently consulted manuals for observing this ancient form of Christian worship. Now, in The Night Offices, Tickle offers the perfect complement to The Divine HoursTM, bringing together prayers, psalms, hymn texts, religious poetry and other readings not included in the original trilogy, covering the offices for the hours from late evening (Compline) to early morning (Prime). Fans of the Divine HoursTM will recognize Tickle's simple, elegant format, her use of a modern calendar rather than a liturgical one, and the single ribbon in the binding, to track one's progress through the year. As in the trilogy, Tickle makes primary use of the Book of Common Prayer and the writings of the Church Fathers, and she draws all the scriptural readings from the Revised Standard Version. The book includes a set of Matins, Lauds, and Prime specific to each day of the week and varied only by month. Thus, the Monday reading for January would be used every Monday in January, but Monday in February would have new offices for it. The cumulative total, being 84 Matins, 84 Lauds, and 84 Prime (252 offices), fits neatly into a single, nightstand edition, a small, compact book that can be comfortably held in the hand. Easy to use, poetically rich, with a superb sampling of devotional works, The Night Offices will be welcomed by a broad readership, Christian and non-Christian alike. |
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... Israel . Amen . Nunc Dimittis The Final Petition Now guide me waking , O Lord , and guard me sleeping ; that awake I may watch with Christ , and asleep , I may rest in peace . Amen . The Office of Dawn Observed on the Hour or Half ...
... Israel . Amen . Nunc Dimittis The Final Petition Now guide me waking , O Lord , and guard me sleeping ; that awake I may watch with Christ , and asleep , I may rest in peace . Amen . The Office of Dawn Observed on the Hour or Half ...
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... Israel . Amen . Nunc Dimittis The Final Petition Now guide me waking , O Lord , and guard me sleeping ; that awake I may watch with Christ , and asleep , I may rest in peace . Amen . The Office of Dawn Observed on the Hour or Half ...
... Israel . Amen . Nunc Dimittis The Final Petition Now guide me waking , O Lord , and guard me sleeping ; that awake I may watch with Christ , and asleep , I may rest in peace . Amen . The Office of Dawn Observed on the Hour or Half ...
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... Israel . The Psalm Isaiah 12 : 2-6 The LORD IS the Strength of My Life The LORD is my light and my salvation ; whom then shall I fear ? * the LORD is the strength of my life ; of whom then shall I be afraid ? When evildoers came upon me ...
... Israel . The Psalm Isaiah 12 : 2-6 The LORD IS the Strength of My Life The LORD is my light and my salvation ; whom then shall I fear ? * the LORD is the strength of my life ; of whom then shall I be afraid ? When evildoers came upon me ...
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... Israel , * which he commanded them to teach their children ; That the generations to come might know , and the children yet unborn ; * that they in their turn might tell it to their children ; So that they might put their trust in God ...
... Israel , * which he commanded them to teach their children ; That the generations to come might know , and the children yet unborn ; * that they in their turn might tell it to their children ; So that they might put their trust in God ...
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... Israel . Amen . Nunc Dimittis The Final Petition Now guide me waking , O Lord , and guard me sleeping ; that awake I may watch with Christ , and asleep , I may rest in peace . Amen . The Office of Dawn Observed on the Hour or Half ...
... Israel . Amen . Nunc Dimittis The Final Petition Now guide me waking , O Lord , and guard me sleeping ; that awake I may watch with Christ , and asleep , I may rest in peace . Amen . The Office of Dawn Observed on the Hour or Half ...
Contents
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For the Month of March | 73 |
For the Month of April | 111 |
For the Month of May | 149 |
For the Month of July | 225 |
For the Month of August | 263 |
For the Month Of September | 301 |
For the Month of October | 339 |
For the Month of November | 377 |
For the Month of December | 415 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 453 |
INDEX OF AUTHORS | 455 |
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Common terms and phrases
a.m. The Call Amen bless the LORD bride adorns bridegroom decks Call to Prayer cause His face Dawn Observed Dimittis The Final earth bless enlighten the nations Excelsis Glory Final Petition Final Thanksgiving garments of salvation give thanks Gloria in Excelsis glorify the Lord Greeting Glory guard me sleeping guide me waking Half-Hour Between 10:30 haste to help hear my prayer highly exalt Holy Spirit Hour or Half-Hour Isaiah Israel let my prayer Light to enlighten Lord's Prayer mercy Night Watch Observed Nunc Dimittis Office of Dawn Office of Midnight Petition Now guide place and bless Praise the LORD pray prayer be set Prayer Behold Prayer of Manasseh Prayer The Final Presence Psalm Request for Presence seen the Savior servant free set your servant sight as incense sing praises Small Verse soul shall exult soul waits stand by night Thanksgiving Lord watch with Christ watchmen world without end Zion
Popular passages
Page 84 - The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Page 26 - I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will take out of your flesh the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
Page 166 - Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Page 165 - There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.
Page 36 - And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
Page 70 - And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
Page 31 - He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities — all things were created through him and for him. He is before all things and in him all things hold together.
Page 265 - O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker. For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.